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About hier to hie to the city From the quarter of the markets

north of him, a quarter which fenced in the cemetery on two sides, the

same dull murmur proceeded, which Mademoiselle de Vrillac had reloith reflected light,

the cause of which was not far to seek, for everyof the tall

houses that overlooked it, and the huddle of booths about it, contributed

a share of the illumination At an hour late even for Paris, an hour

when honest e brilliance

did for a moment perplex him; but the past week had been so full of

fetes, of masques and frolics, often devised on the 's whim, that he set this also down to such a cause, and

wondered no hts in the houses did not serve the purpose he had in his ate of the ce before an ie of the Mother and Child He crossed

to this, and assuring hier from prowlers, he drew a note froallery before he saw Made; it had been in his possession barely an hour But brief as its

contents were, and easily committed to memory, he had perused it thrice

already

"At the house next the Golden Maid, Rue Cinq Diaht, you may find the door open should you desire to talk farther